Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> 
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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>> Personally, I think there are alot of large features that ppl have been
>> hard at getting complete in time for June 1st that we should stick to it,
>> else we're going to end up with 'yet another release' delayed in hopes
>> that the outstanding bugs in Win32 will get fixed in a reasonable amount
>> of time ...
>>
>> June 1st, let's do beta for 7.5 and then branch onto 8.0, with 8.0 key'd
>> to the Win32 Native port being finished ...
>>
>> If that means 8.0 happens to be September 1st, so be it ...
>>
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> 
> Bruce agreed that this had been vague before today, so if people have 
> had this date in mind and have been working to it, perhaps they have 
> some telepathic abilities I lack ...
> 
> We missed on PITR *and* Win32 last year. ISTM there's a bit of a 
> credibility issue at stake, so it might well be worth taking a couple of 
> weeks leeway if that's what is required.
> 
> The other point, especially about Win32, is to see if we can spread the 
> load a bit. Perhaps Claudio, Magnus, Merlin and Bruce should start 
> trying to farm out specific tasks. I for one will be very upset if it 
> misses this release.
> 
> cheers
> 
> andrew


This is exactly the point ...
If you go to a conference you will ALWAYS face the same questions:
- when can we have sync. replication and failover- when can we have PITR- when can we have win32

People won't believe us anymore if you keep telling them "in the next 
release".
If a feature freeze is made on August 1st or even later it would be ok 
because nobody is doing major database changes in summer anyway.
Currently I cannot see a major reason why people should upgrade to 7.5 
(ARC and so forth are great but they are no killer features). Maybe in 
this case it is worth waiting for 2 major features to make it into the 
release (let's say PITR + nested transactions or win32 and pitr or 2pc 
and nested transactions). This would point out that significant progress 
is made.
Regards,
    Hans


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